Introduces the Second General Session of the 1970 DAVI National Convention and includes a speech by the Associate Commissioner of the United States Office of Education on the background and goals of the Bureau of Libraries and Educational Technology. (AA)

The eighteenth edition of the Dewey Decimal Classification system is reviewed. (SJ)

The study indicates that librarians and audiovisual directors can provide inservice training to teachers which meets their individual needs and which results in fuller use of materials owned by the school (Author/MM)

Teachers and librarians must understand the total child - normal or exceptional - and how he learns, before they can educate him successfully. (Author)

The evidence of this 20th annual report makes it clear that 1970 was a pretty good year after all. (Author)

Some of the latest approaches to furniture and facilities design for multi-media use in libraries, including a rationale for selection are explored. (Author/NH)

Universities with vacant summer housing could open it to scholars on summer leave for research. (Editor)

A report on the pre-conference institute sponsored by the Social Responsibilities Round Table at the ALA Confernce in Detroit. (Author)

Australia, with the aid of the Library Association of Australia, struggles against increasing restrictions on intellectual freedom. (NH)

Two services provided by the Boeing Co. Aerospace Group Library-Literature searches and reference/publication identification activities-were evaluated by written and oral surveys of the library's users. The survey technique and cost savings reported by the two studies are discussed. (2 references) (Author/NH)

Information events and environments (including the flyers, posters and electronic announcements to make these happen) are more important than bibliographies and print-dominated programming. Tomorrow's illiterate will not be the man who can't read; he will be the man who hasn't learned how to learn. (20 references) (Author/NH)

Libraries should not be viewed as inert monoliths or dinosaurs, unchanging or unresponsive. Rather they should participate rightfully in the center of our community dialogue, even as the keystone between what has gone before and what is to come. (18 references) (Author/NH)

Library media specialists should be instigating their own research models and creating charts that graphically depict their library media programs. (Author/MM)